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IT is now generally recognized that of all recent works dealing with elementary natural science, none have more thoroughly revolutionized our methods of teaching than those of Huxley, well known; and the years 1875–77 will be for all time memorable to English-speaking students, as those which marked their publication. The principles therein laid down are now so well known and generally adopted, that explanation of them would be here superfluous. In his work on “Physiography” the author points out (preface, p. viii.) that any intelligent teacher will have no difficulty in making use of the resources of his surroundings, in the manner and to the end laid down by himself; and this, in the long run, is the refrain of the method by which he has effected the revolution alluded to. So far as external evidences go, this wise counsel appears to have been nowhere more readily acted upon than in New Zealand.
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H., G. Studies in Biology for New Zealand Students1. Nature 42, 309 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042309a0
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